From 8-year old Hilda’s diary:
This is Grandmother’s birthday. She didn’t have a real party but everyone came to see her. She loves flowers very much, so that is what everyone brought her. The whole house is full of beautiful ones, but there are so many and the trouble is that they don’t look so beautiful anymore, they look crowded. It would be nice to take one flower, and put it in a little vase and just look at it all by itself. Aunt Tillie knows how to arrange flowers, just like they do downtown in the big department stores, but my Grandmother’s arrangements always look like the flowers are wearing corsets. I love to help arrange flowers but everyone says I make too much of a mess.